World watch
Kampala Ugandan education minister Francis Babu is to try to take a postgraduate course through distance education with a British university after he was expelled from Makerere University when...
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World watch
Boston The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has publicly acknowledged that it has been discriminating against women scientists for years. A five-year study published last week revealed that the...
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World watch
Wellington New Zealand's university staff union has challenged moves by Waikato University vice-chancellor Bryan Gould to restructure the university from eight schools into four faculties. An...
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Fehmi Agani
(Photograph) - Fehmi Agani (centre), the Kosovo sociology professor whom Nato reported executed on Sunday, pictured taking a break from the Rambouillet peace talks in February. With president...
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Botanist sends out an SOS for risotto, lentils and rye
Future generations may never savour the manifold pleasures of a "real" saffron risotto, one of the pillars of Italian gastronomic tradition. They may also never experience the delights of eating the...
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Dumpling diet clue to poverty
Students in Ekaterinburg are the poorest in Russia, a survey by financial magazine Kommersant Dengi claims. Based on a survey of monthly student incomes and expenditure on a range of necessities -...
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Pretoria crackdown on university financial bungling
Six former all-black universities in South Africa are under government investigation in an effort to "stabilise" their finances and administration, as well as restore confidence. The audits were...
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'Melancholy' v-c faces pay strife
As Australian academics prepare for industrial action over a 19 per cent pay claim, the federal government ruled out extra cash for universities to cover the cost. Education minister David Kemp told...
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Survival on cold comfort campus
One of the most important subjects Amy Stiffler says she has learnt as a student at Bemidji State University was not from a book or a lecturer. It was how to survive severe cold. When Ms Stiffler's...
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Forest sale fires activists
Kenya's high court has temporarily stopped the University of Nairobi from disciplining 68 students who joined demonstrations against the allocation of a Nairobi forest for real estate development to...
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Reviews
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE LAW AND PRACTICE. By Michael Chissick and Alistair Kelman. Sweet and Maxwell, pp230 Pounds 125.00, ISBN 0 7520 0650. The internet may be a foreign country, but British laws still...
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Power elites regroup to defuse net threat
Hopes that the internet will transform political life by upsetting existing power structures will be disappointed, a session at last week's Political Studies Association conference in Nottingham was...
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Russian connection
Russian students and academics will get easier internet access under an education ministry scheme to establish internet centres, deputy education minister Alexander Kondakov has announced. Speaking...
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Pounds 1m for training
Bolton Institute has ordered Sun Microsystems servers and storage from Esteem Computers, in order to expand its capacity to deliver training across the internet. The order is part of a Pounds 1...
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Hypertextile
The Iris women's photography project at Staffordshire University has won top prize in the internet section at Transmediale 99, the international media arts festival in Berlin. "The Future Looms" is...